The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.

The noblest art is that of making others happy

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?

No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.

You can fool most of the people most of the time.

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.

Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.

When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.

You know I had rather be laughed at than not to be noticed at all.

Perseverance and audacity generally win.

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.

We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

Nothing is easier than sinning.

My strong game was ping pong. Relentless... steady.

May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference.

The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.